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withering 音标拼音: [w'ɪðɚɪŋ] a. 摧毁的,进行干燥处理的 摧毁的,进行乾燥处理的 withering adj 1: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; " possessing annihilative power"; " a devastating hurricane"; " the guns opened a withering fire" [ synonym: { annihilative}, { annihilating}, { devastating}, { withering}] 2: making light of; " afire with annihilating invective"; " a devastating portrait of human folly"; " to compliments inflated I' ve a withering reply"- W. S. Gilbert [ synonym: { annihilating}, { devastating}, { withering}] n 1: any weakening or degeneration ( especially through lack of use) [ synonym: { atrophy}, { withering}] Wither \ With" er\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Withered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Withering}.] [ OE. wideren; probably the same word as wederen to weather ( see { Weather}, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- beaten, Lith. vysti to wither.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. [ 1913 Webster] Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? -- Ezek. xvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away, as animal bodies. [ 1913 Webster] This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] There was a man which had his hand withered. -- Matt. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster] Now warm in love, now with' ring in the grave. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. " Names that must not wither." -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster]
Withering \ With" er* ing\, a. Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- { With" er* ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] 142 Moby Thesaurus words for " withering": Sanforizing, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, air- drying, anhydration, arrogant, atrophy, attenuation, baneful, biting, bitter, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, caustic, clannish, cliquish, coming apart, consuming, consumption, consumptive, contemptuous, contumelious, corroding, corrosive, cracking, crumbling, cutting, deadly, decadent, declining, degenerate, dehumidification, dehydration, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desiccation, desolating, destroying, destructive, deteriorating, devastating, disastrous, disdainful, disintegrating, doomful, drainage, draining, drooping, drying, drying up, dwindling, ebbing, effete, emaceration, emaciation, evaporation, exclusive, fading, failing, falling, fatal, fateful, flagging, fragmenting, fratricidal, going to pieces, haughty, incisive, insolation, internecine, keen, languishing, marcescence, marcescent, mordacious, mordant, mummification, nihilist, nihilistic, parching, penetrating, piercing, pining, preshrinkage, ravaging, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, ruining, ruinous, scathing, scorching, scornful, searing, self- destructive, sharp, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stabbing, stinging, subsiding, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, supercilious, tabetic, tart, thinning, toploftical, toplofty, trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, waning, wastage, waste, wasteful, wasting, wilting, worsening
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